this is the crowd ted cruz is playing to when he makes the stands in washington, that are so angering some of the colleagues he has, that say you know what? going through with this and potentially shutting down the government to de-fund this law could have enormous consequences for the republican party in the long run. >> and casey, what about the senior senator, who said that ted cruz is just plain hopelessly wrong about this? >> well, you know, cornyn was on that letter, initially, that senator mike lee circulated that actually had been the root of all of this. and he actually pulled his name off. to the point he was angered. the crowd here tonight actually yelled john cornyn's name. there was another group that held a mock town hall with john cornyn, they said he wouldn't show up. so they had a cardboard cut out, saying this is the guy we don't support. >> krystal ball, ted cruz trying to find followers to this campaign, not working so well. >> that is an excellent point, the interesting thing here, you see with ted cruz, the town hall, you see how cheap the rhetoric is, how the ba